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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
May. 14, 2015
Applicant:
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Burlington, NC (US);
Inventors:
Charles Paul Cartwright, Plymouth, MN (US);
Bryndon Denae Lembke, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Kalpana Ramachandran, Shakopee, MN (US);
Assignee:
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Burlington, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/689 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/112 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/158 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of diagnosing bacterial vaginosis in a woman, which involves determining an amount of each of more than one BV-associated bacterium in a vaginal sample obtained from the female and assessing a BV status of the female based on the amount of each of the more than one BV-associated bacterium in the sample.